George, please continue to speak frankly and plainly, especially with me. I have all the subtly and tact of a wrecking ball ... and tend to not pick up on subtle hints. Also, continue to chime in on this thread - sometimes it takes repetition to penetrate us young'uns' thick skulls.I am going to speak frankly. That is how I speak, and this is by no means a criticism of you or anyone else. This is just a hobby.
I have shared what I have based on the title of the thread. That has been my mindset. My view of what that means is obviously different. My interests are different. Not better, just different. Frankly, I am only wasting a lot of time. I think that I have contributed as much as I can.
You have an interesting goal. I hope that you are successful, and that you enjoy the process. You should chart your process and progress and make that a contribution to this thread. I am sure that will be interesting to some.
Concerning your comments performance/waste, you will find that for your goals the comments are still relevant. Because you have an actual goal. Not an idea, a goal. If you continue with it for any length of time, that is if you enjoy the process enough, you will find yourself eliminating waste. You will make improvements, and some of it will be instinctive. You will find yourself trying to get better at it, and getting your birds better for it. That is eliminating waste, and pushing to get more efficient. The point is equally applicable here. Just because the goal is capons, does not change anything. That is if you are breeding the birds to be capons. My response to your response, LOL, is that you did not think about how the comment applied to you. Instead, you dismissed it as not applying to you.
As to the bolded part: It sounds like I need to mull over it for a few days before shooting my "mouth" off. Or maybe I need to wait until I've raised up some capons to see and feel (and eventually taste) the differences you speak of. Or perhaps I need to wait until I've grown out capons that I have bred myself. I do have one very nice big boy from Luanne that will not be eaten for a good four years - he'll be one of my breeding roosters and I named him already (Azar, like the regional restaurant chain up in NE Indiana). He isn't bright and flashy, being a black phase BLRW, but he is nice and solid underneath the fluffy feathers.
The Wyandottes I bought from Luanne are about 7 weeks old now, and that boy has been noticeably bigger than the other three cockerels for two weeks now.
I hope this is coherent enough today. Some days I have more difficulty expressing my thoughts than other days. Keep questioning and challenging me - I don't want anyone to feel as though I steamrolled y'all here, because I am here to learn just as much as anyone else.